The Caux Dialogue on Land and Security’s managing director, Irina Fedorenko, was invited to speak at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) 2019 in Davos, Switzerland. Read her personal account of her experience in Davos!

Despite the data privacy law known as GDPR[1] which empowers online users to protect their private information, I blindy click “I accept” roughly twenty times a day, just to get access to what I want and quickly. It’s not a sign of trust, but rather me resigning to the fact that I won’t have the time to read, let alone understand the terms of conditions. - Annika Hartmann de Meuron, Managing Director of Ethical Leadership in Business, reflects on digital privacy and its implications.

The theme of this year’s week against racism to be held in March 2019 is “Allowed to work?” During this week, Initiatives of Change Switzerland will help organise two human libraries. The first will take place on 18 March at 7.30pm at the Montreux-Veytaux library and the second on 21 March at 6.30pm at the Vevey municipal library.

"Through my work and my own personal journey, I have come to realize that there are a great many things I cannot control, but the little I can control, that I can change, is in me. There are two tools in particular that allowed me to start with myself and to navigate my way through this complex world. These two tools are …. Silence …. And Love." - Rainer Gude is the Strategic Partnerships Manager for IofC Switzerland. Read more about his reflections on silence and love.

Last December, Initiatives of Change Switzerland facilitated the venue of Imam Ashafa and Pastor James from northern Nigeria to the Center of Competence for Humanitarian Negotiation’s annual meeting in Geneva.

On 7 November 2018, 75 people participated in the latest event in IofC Switzerland’s Enriching Encounters series, which took place in the UN Library in Geneva. ‘Peacebuilders – Voices from local communities’ was co-organized with the Library, as part of the fifth Geneva Peace Week.

On the International Day of Tolerance, Initiatives of Change, who received the Ousseimi Prize on Tolerance in 2014, was invited to contribute to a panel discussion hosted by the UN Library in Geneva on “Solidarity, Dialogue and Tolerance among Nations: towards a culture of Peace”.